Simple Things: Stages of Romance in a Small Village – By Rehab...
Translated from the Arabic by Essam M. Al-Jassim
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“Why won’t you hold my hand when we walk in the street?” she asked, her voice soft.
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Ten Years – By Itto & Mekiya Outini
The letter from France, informing Halima that she’d been awarded a scholarship to study material sciences at one of the country’s most prestigious institutions,...
Poor Dogs of Budapest – By Daniel Frears
The poor dogs of Budapest were having a hard time, and it didn’t look like getting better any time soon. Over the past few...
The Vigil – By Peter J. Dellolio
(An extract from the novella The Vigil)
SALTY BLANKETS OF crushed crabs. He wants to go elsewhere. Nothing glowing like the regal white lighthouse. Mystery...
Leaving — By Lorette C. Luzajic
Bank of the Old Mississippi. In the blinking lanterns and soft rain. They watch the dinner boats stream by. The jovial trombones and the...
Hsi-wei and the Dragon’s Tail – By Robert Wexelblatt
Within a year after the itinerant peasant-poet Chen Hsi-wei retired to a small cottage outside Chiangling, he began receiving occasional visitors. Lady Bao, widow...
Punishment – By Mohammed Jadallah
Translated from the Arabic by Essam M. Al-Jassim
Whenever our ruler made a television appearance, I would gather my three children around the crackly screen....
A Most Unpleasant Story – By Robert Wexelblatt
When Justine and Sheila came back from the ladies, Lauren was chatting with two good-looking men. Sheila had brought somebody from work, while Lauren...
The Blue Watch Tells the Cliffside Time – By Norbert Kovacs
Based on The Persistence of Memory (featured above) by Salvador Dalí
When he was young, he loved to study the rugged cliffside of his native...
Report to the Society – By Robert Wexelblatt
Honored Chairman and Members of the Société d’Exploration Anthropologique, the unrest in S. province has persisted as long as anyone can remember. The attitude...
